And daylight savings. To be honest if you had tried to implement that I would have probably vetoed it based on Viserys' high INT and WIS scores.
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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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And daylight savings. To be honest if you had tried to implement that I would have probably vetoed it based on Viserys' high INT and WIS scores.
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Minor issue with the winning plan.
Goldfish wants to use 60 seconds, but his clock divides the minute in 10 elements with no way to divide further.
Maybe unify that?
Minor issue with the winning plan.
Goldfish wants to use 60 seconds, but his clock divides the minute in 10 elements with no way to divide further.
Maybe unify that?
Thanks for catching that.
@Goldfish do you want me to put in 6 Seconds to one IC second or alter the clock?
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Design limitation, at least if we assume that a magic clock can only operate in round increments, which he does. There should be just 6 sub-divisions of that element, which light up in sequence.
And if all else fails, I will design a better clock out of Serpentstone once we got it.
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The stated goal of @Goldfish was to use the common real-life division, so altering the clock sounds more sensible.
Otherwise, I see no particular reason why we wouldn't have used a different and more sensible system.
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I like the idea of making the round the basic element of our time-measuring.
Makes sense IC, to measure by magic rather than arbitrarily subdivide the element into 6 seconds.
Makes sense IC, to measure by magic rather than arbitrarily subdivide the element into 6 seconds.
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Can we just keep a game abstraction a game abstraction and not try to shoehorn it in as some sort of universal constant?
That just leads to a pretty uselessly long definition of a second.
On the other hand... do it. Then I can introduce decimal time as the scientific measurement, since they would need a wee bit more precision then 6 seconds to get anything done.
That works. We'll go with that since dividing the round by ten is going to happen anyway when one needs smaller increments of time anyway like with RL fractions of a second
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Wait, divide by 10? So now we have 100 seconds to the minute?
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Or 10 seconds.Wait, divide by 10? So now we have 100 seconds to the minute?
Each divided in 10 deciseconds?
Wait, divide by 10? So now we have 100 seconds to the minute?
No I meant that the 6 second 'imperial second' will get divided into 10 so the first increment will be 0,6 of a RL second
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Well, then yes, we now have 100 seconds to the minute.
1 minute = 10 rounds (6 RL seconds) -> 100 "deciseconds"
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Why didn't we use decimal in the first place again if we do this?
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Except the vote states that a minute is 60 seconds.
Because it makes life easier for mages and they are the ones most likely to need that sort of precision in the near future, or at lest that is the reasoning I'm using IC
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It's still 60 minutes to an hour and 24 hours a day.
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It would go directly counter to the vote though.
I've proposed easy and sensible decimal divisions of time and lost. People didn't even want the parallel system, with the the 24 hour system for daily use and the decimal one for scientific use.
True. It just seems odd to me that anyone would arbitrarily divide by 6 instead of ten. Still if that's what you guys want that's what I'm doing. It's not really that big an issue.
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But his clock provides the other solution.
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Why are we dividing by 24 and 60 respectively?
That's the point I tried to make last night, but people want the arbitrary stuff they are used to.
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Those AA weapons would be expensive enough singly that putting them in quad arrangements might be impractical.
Definitely support implementing Hallow use.
I don't really see any issue with the day rolling over at noon as opposed to midnight, but I will leave that up to DP based on IC reasoning.
No, that's a limitation of the system. We can make a highly accurate magical clock, but we can't do the degree of incremental precision of a good mundane clock. This is one of the reasons my vote has us funding a group to devise a cheap non-magical clock.
What? No, seconds are seconds, 6 of them to one round, 60 of them to a minute, and so on.
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Those are given by the increments of magic. Minute/CL spells exist and so do Hour/CL and Day/CL ones.
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Well, if you rule that to be an actual constant of nature, then no other time division ever had a chance in the first place.
I take it there also no getting rid of the imperial measurements system then until Lya can fix the universe?
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24 and 60 makes sense when we use magic to create the basic elements.
One round as minimal spell-duration.
10 rounds to the next measurement, which we call minute.
10 of those to the next spell-duration, which we call 10 minutes.
6 of those to the next, which we call hour.
24 of those to spells with day-long duration.
That is, in my opinion, the best solution.
But unfortunatly I was asleep for most of the vote.
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